8 Ways To a Healthy, Happy Life

Posted on 10. Sep, 2010 by Guy in Health Psychology/Motivation

When We don’t take 100% responsibility for our lives We block our own progress and happiness. Sometimes it’s easier to focus on someone else’s business or life instead of changing what needs to be changed in our own. Using our focus and creativity to be a proactive participant in our life rather than a spectator allows us to push ourselves outside the boundaries that we are currently living in to live in a happy healthy state.

The following tips will allow you to shatter both internal and external barriers to achieving happiness and health.

8 Ways to Live a Happy, Healthy Life

1. Have Self-confidence, Respect and Love  for yourself.

It’s impossible to love anyone more than you love yourself. It’s easy to respect yourself when you feel good, look great and everything cooperates. The real test comes with accepting your flaws, working with your shadow side and loving your humanness. We can learn to have compassion for the part of us that can be imperfect, greedy, inconsiderate and judgmental. Self-love allows us to heal these parts and move forward with a deeper sense of confidence in ourselves and boundless strength to help others.

2. Become your own priority.

Pamper your body, mind and spirit. Take baby steps and begin to eat right and be impeccably groomed. Take scheduled breaks through out your day. Feed your mind with educational and inspirational information. When you do this you add beautiful, neural associations as you learn to respect yourself.

If you have recently decided to improve your exercise habits, with information from something like “The Successful Health Wellness Plan”. You will make your life easier because it can educate you to eat more healthily. Eliminating poor quality food from your diet and including lots of good quality, organic where possible, healthy animals, vegetation, nuts & seeds will keep your mind and body on top form.

3. Stop comparing, competing, and criticizing.

As you eliminate draining little habits from your daily life your energy can flow freely into your dreams and happiness. Your role in life is like a puzzle piece that fits into the jigsaw puzzle of the universe, the world is incomplete without your unique self.

When I find myself stuck in the three “C’s”(comparing, competing & criticizing) I know I’m off track. It only takes seconds to refocus my thoughts and move forward. I choose to live in the present moment, life trusting myself to do good things, make great choices and decisions without judging myself harshly.

4. Anchor your self in appreciation.

Do you think to yourself? It’s a privilege to be alive at this time. I am grateful for the difficult lessons I’m learning from our economy, the oil spill, and the war. As I make inner changes, I see my exterior world change. In stead of focusing on the media and negativity I focus on the difference I can make.

Answers to our problems lie in each of us. Each morning I decide to “wake up and smell the day.” Life is precious, I won’t waste it wishing things were different. I choose to live more consciously. The individual changes we make will change the world.

5. Activate forgiveness.

Perfection in life is not required. We all do and say things we regret. I choose to learn from my mistakes. I encourage you to be gentle with yourself and others. Resentment and bitterness poison our mind, body and relationships. It is said that, “resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die!” Forgiving others will take you away from suffering and towards peace of mind, a peace of mind that is always available to you.

6. Record loving moments.

Keep a journal of the happiness, love and good things you experience everyday. Focusing on love and good times increases love and good times, simple neurology. A journal of “good stuff” can be used as a great pick-me-up in difficult times. You’ll find there are infinite experiences to record. Be a part of seeing the best in every thing and every one. If you keep gratitude journals for years you can look back  on your life with appreciation each time you reread one.

7. Set your goals & intention.

Each morning set your goals & intention for your day. “I intend to be patient today. I intend to be kind. I intend to live in the moment.” You choose your attitude, energy and direction. Consciously create the incredible and amazing life you desperately want. Resolve to choose the best for yourself. You’ll learn to brighten your own day!

8. Serve others.

There is a ancient proverb about heaven and hell…In one room a pot of delicious stew sits in the middle of a big round table. The people at the table are holding unusually long handled spoons which made reaching their mouths impossible. They are thin, sick and weak. This room represents hell.

The next room also has a large table and a delicious pot of stew as well… The people around this table also hold long-handled spoons. However these people are plump, healthy and happy because they’ve learned to feed each other. This room represents heaven. Find someone to serve everyday. Expect nothing in return.

It’s easy to lose hope, blame others and feel victimized in our world. Yet, our power lies in establishing thoughts and habits of goodness and acceptance. Imagine throwing your daily pebble of good thoughts and habits in the water. Yours connect to other like-minded good thoughts and habits. Soon you begin to notice and take part in a whole new world. And everyone will ask you, “How did you get so lucky?”

Tags: happiness, health, honour, respect